2017.10.04 21:42
The English author Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for what the prize committee in Sweden said were works that uncovered “the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro pic.twitter.com/j9kYaeMZH6
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2017
The committee said on Twitter that Mr. Ishiguro, who moved to Britain when he was 5 years old, was most associated with the themes of memory, time and self-delusion.
“The Remains of the Day” (1989), perhaps his best-known work, was turned into a film starring Anthony Hopkins as the butler Stevens.
“Ishiguro’s writings are marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place,” the prize committee wrote in a statement after the announcement. “At the same time, his more recent fiction contains fantastic features.”
Citing the dystopian work “Never Let Me Go” (2005), the committee said that Mr. Ishiguro introduced “a cold undercurrent of science fiction into his work.”
In assessing his latest novel, “The Buried Giant." (2015), the committee praised the novel for the way it explored, “in a moving manner, how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality.”(NYTimes)
2017.10.04 21:46
2017.10.04 22:00
First of all, thank you for sharing the news.
I read the news right now on the Korean newspaper in Korea,
but description of Mr. Kazuo Ishiguro (1954 -) was so sketchy
and I read about the award on NY Times edition on 10/5, today.
I want to share more information about Mr. Ishiguro with his
personal information by wikipedia.org;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro
And I shall add his film adaptation after my work of the day
- "The Remains of the Day (1993)" which I saw and was very
impressed. Thank you and see you later.
2017.10.05 05:41
Addendum;
"The Remains of The Day (1993)" - trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsH83p_mfEs
FYI;
"The Remains of The Day (1989)" - novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day
2017.10.05 07:06
Thank you very much, Dr. Bang,
for helping us to know more about this writer.
2017.10.05 12:59
You're welcome. Sir.
By the way, here is video showing Kazuo Ishiro's interview
talking about his masterpieces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ-bSRrxaU
And I shall move your article to my high school's Web in America
without your permission. I hope you don't mind. Thanks again.
The Permanent Secretary
Press Release
5 October 2017
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".